Tuesday, October 14, 2025 En Route from London to Bombay. It would be about 7.30 am (GMT)—local London time—when I landed in London at the end of the first leg of my return to Bombay from Los Angeles, California. After a light breakfast (a snack service, really, as gone are those days when you received…
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Goodbye London, Hello Again USA–In Chicago After Ages!
Saturday, September 20, 2025 London-Atlanta-Chicago Goodbye London, Hello Again USA–In chicago After Ages. My last morning in London saw me awake at 3.00 am (I had set my alarm for 6.00 am) and unable to sleep a wink after. I actually sat on the phone and chatted with my friend, Maria, as it was mid-day…
My Last Day Dawns! Revisiting the Victoria and Albert Museum, Lunch at Carluccio’s, Last-Minute Shopping in Clapham and Dinner at Caravella
Friday, September 19, 2025 Battersea, London My Last Day Dawns! Revisiting the Victoria and Albert Museum, Lunch at Carluccio’s, Last-Minute Shopping in Clapham and Dinner at Caravella And so it inevitably happened! My last day in London (on this trip) dawned and I recall thinking how much I wanted to cram into it before it…
A Visit to Hatfield House and a Night at the National Theater
Thursday, September 18, 2025 Hatfield and London A Visit to Hatfield House and a Night at the National Theater Today I made a longish trek out of London to see a place I have loved and dreamed of visiting. It is Hatfield House, the happy childhood home of Queen Elizabeth I and the venue of…
A Fabulous Day of Discovery—Exploring Primrose Hill, Regent’s Park, Regent’s Canal Tow Path and Holland Park. Plus a Celebrity ‘Helicade’ Flies Above me
Wednesday, September 17, Battersea, London A Fabulous Day of Discovery—Exploring Primrose Hill, Regent’s Park, Regent’s Canal Tow Path and Holland Park. Plus a Celebrity ‘Helicade’ Flies Above me! I had another fabulous (if profoundly fatiguing) day in London! Truly, as Dr. Johns put it, “When a man is tired of London, he tired of life…
A Muddled Kind of Day—with Superlative Food at Rochelle Canteen and Bursa Restaurant
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 Battersea, London A Muddled Kind of Day—with Superlative Food at Rochelle Canteen and Bursa Restaurant I had a leisured wake-up phase today. For one thing, I savored the feeling of waking up in one of my favorite rooms in the world—the guest room in my friend Roz’s home in Battersea. Occasionally,…
Moving Day! From Chelsea to Battersea, Off I Go!
Monday, September 15, 2025 Battersea, London Moving Day! From Chelsea to Battersea, Off I Go! After days of traipsing tirelessly around London, it was time today to give it a (minor) rest. Since it’s the day I move out of my Air B and B in Chelsea-Fulham and shift to my friend’s home in Battersea…
Day Two of London Open Festival Week Finds me Hanging out with the Saints at St. Etheldreda’s Church in Holborn; With friends over Brunch in Soho; With poet John Keats in Hampstead and Rocking with the cast of the Number One musical in the West End, ‘Hadestown’.
Sunday, September 14, 2025 London Day Two of London Open Festival Week Finds me Hanging out with the Saints at St. Etheldreda’s Church in Holborn; With friends over Brunch in Soho; With poet John Keats in Hampstead and Rocking with the cast of the Number One musical in the West End, ‘Hadestown’. When I am…
Touring Private Spaces on Day One of London’s Open House Festival Week: Battersea Arts Center, Kelmscott House, Lincoln’s Inn, HMS Wellington, ‘Born with Teeth’ at the West End
Saturday, September 13, 2025 London Touring Private Spaces on Day One of London’s Open House Festival Week This year, I have the good luck of arriving and staying in London, purely by coincidence on Open House Festival Week—a week during which private spaces, usually closed to the public are opened, free of charge, for walking…
Today All About Doing My Favorite London Things! Being a Sloane Ranger, Taking a (Free) Red Bus Tour, Re-Exploring Covent Garden, Lunch at Bill’s, Seeing the Poppies at the Tower of London, Late Evening Openings at the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery and Viewing London By Night.
Friday, September 12, 2025 London, UK Today All About Doing My Favorite London Things! Being a Sloane Ranger, Taking a (Free) Red Bus Tour, Re-Exploring Covent Garden, Lunch at Bill’s, Seeing the Poppies at the Tower of London, Late Evening Openings at the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery and Viewing London By Night.…